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RULES AND STATUTES 


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TIN1YERS1TY OY PENNSYLYANIA, 


ENACTED BY 


THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, 


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RULES AND STATUTES. 


JUNE 21, 1811. 


Of the Board of Trustees. 

1. THE stated meetings of the board shall be held in their 
hall, on the first Tuesday of every month, at 7 o^clock, P. 
M. unless otherwise directed by the board, and adjournments 
of such meetings may be made when necessary. 

2. A special meeting may be called at any time, and in case 
of public exigency, at such other place than the hall as may 
be deemed expedient, at the request of three members, com- 
municated in writing to the secretary, and containing the 
proposed object of such meeting, which shall be stated in 
the notices to be sent to the trustees. 

3. As soon as five members shall have appeared at or after 
lhe appointed hour of meeting, the president (or in his ab- 
sence, a chairman to be chosen pro tempore) shall take the 
chair and call the members to order. 

4. After the chair shall have been taken, no member shall 
depart from the board during the sitting, without leave first 
obtained. 

5. The chair shall deride on questions of order: from such 
decisions, how r ever, an appeal to the board may be had, if 
required by two members, and the board shall thereupon de- 
cide without debate. 


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6. At stated and adjourned meetings, business shall be 
proceeded in according to the following order: 

First. The secretary shall read the minutes of the pre- 
ceding meeting. 

Second He shall call over the names of the members of 
outstanding committees. 

Third The reports of committees shall be read. 

Fourth. Communications addressed to the board shall be 
read. 

Fifth Keports of committees and communications may 
be called up, discussed, and order taken thereon. 

Sixth. Other business may be proceeded upon on mo- 
tion. 

Seventh. The minutes of every meeting shall be read 
over at the close thereof, for the purpose of correc- 
tion and amendment. 

7. At special meetings, after the minutes of the preceding 
meeting shall have been read, the board shall immediately 
proceed to the consideration of the business for which they 
are specially convened; and no other business shall be brought 
before the board at such special meeting. 

8. No motion shall be received unless seconded, nor until 
the mover, if required by the president, chairman, or a mem- 
ber, shall have committed it to writing. 

9. Every member when speaking, shall address himself 
to the chair; and when a question is before the board, no 
motion shall be received, unless to amend, divide, commit 
or postpone, or to adjourn the board; and a motion to adjourn 
shall always be decided without debate. 

10. Vacancies in the board shall be filled up by election 
by ballot, by a majority of the members present, being not 


less than thirteen; and due and timely notice shall be always 
given of such election; and no person shall he elected at 
the same meeting at which he shall have been nominated. 

11. The professors and officers of the faculty shall be elect- 
ed by a majority of the members of the board present, being 
not less than thirteen; and due and timely notice shall always 
be given of such election; and no person shall be elected such 
professor or officer at the same meeting at which he shall 
have been nominated. 

12. No professor or officer of the faculty shall be removed 
by a less number than two-thirds of the members of the board 
present, being not less than thirteen; nor unless due and 
timely notice of such intended removal shall have been given; 
nor at the same meeting at which such removal shall have 
been proposed. 

13 Thirteen members shall be necessary to form a quo- 
rum for enacting, altering, or repealing bye-laws, or for 
disposing of money, or other property exceeding twenty- 
five pounds in amount or value, belonging to the University; 
and previous notice shall at all times be required that money 
or property is to be disposed of, before an amount or value 
greater than twenty five pounds shall be disposed of. Pro- 
vided, that in relation to every kind of business abovemen- 
tioned, excepting for what the charter requires thirteen or 
more, a common quorum shall be sufficient, if the matter 
determined on being expressed in the notices lor the next 
stated monthly meeting, the same be not at that meeting dis- 
allowed; and until the subsequent meeting shall have been 
held, the matter determined on shall have no effect. 

14 For the transacting of ordinary business, not herein 
specially provided for, five members shall be a sufficient 
quorum; and one or more members, less than a quorum, may 
make an adjournment. 


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15. On the first Tuesday of January, in every year, the 
following standing committees shall be appointed, with full 
power and authority to superintend and direct the objects 
of their respective appointments, subject, however, to such 
particular orders and directions as may from time to time 
be given by the Board of Trustees. And it shall be the duty 
of the said committees to make report in writing of their 
proceedings annually, on the first Tuesday of January fol- 
lowing, and oftener, when required. 

First , A Committee of Finance and Accounts, to consist 
of three members, whose duty it shall be to superintend 
the est.ite and revenue of the institution, to examine and 
report on all claims which may be exhibited against it, 
and to report on the state of the treasury. 

Second , A committee of two member**, who shall have 
charge of the library and philosophical apparatus, and 
shall prepare and keep a catalogue and list thereof, to 
be printed for the use of the trustees and professors. 
They shall also make suitable regulations on the subject 
of taking books from the library; and no books shall be 
removed therefrom, contrary to such regulations by any 
person, under any pretence whatever. 

Third, A committee of twelve members, whose special 
duty it shall be to attend the examinations in the college 
and the academy, and also the examination of candidates 
for degrees in the arts and in medicine, and to assist and 
advise with the faculty in regard to the government of 
the students and scholars, and to report to the board in 
cases where the immediate interposition of its authority 
shall be deemed requisite. 

Fourth , A committee of three members to superintend the 
charity-schools, and authorize the admission of scholars 
therein. 


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Of the Secretary and Treasurer. 

1. The board shall, from time to time, whenever a va- 
cancy shall happen, appoint a suitable person to be secreta- 
ry and treasurer, removable at their pleasure, who shall be 
allowed a salary of fifty pounds per annum for his services 
as secretary, and a commission of two and one-half per cen- 
tum for collecting and receiving the annual revenues of the 
institution; and also the like commission on the collection of 
the tuition money, if he shall be required to perform that 
service; provided, that on or before the first Tuesday of Oc- 
tober next, the present secretary and treasurer, and that any 
secretary and treasurer hereafter to be appointed,, shall, 
before he enter on the duties of i>is said offices, give bond to 
the University of Pennsylvania, with approved sureties, in 
the sum of ten thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful 
performance of the duties of his said offices, and for the 
faithfully accounting for and paying over all monies belong- 
ing to the institution, that may have come into his hands, 
and for delivering over to his successor in office all books, 
vouchers and documents, in his possession, belonging to the 
University 

2. It shall be his duty to attend the board at their meet- 
ings; to keep fair minutes and records of all their proceed- 
ings; to issue notices to the members of stated and adjourned 
meetings, and also of special meetings, when duly required, 
and generally he shall perform all reasonable and customary 
duties incident to the office of clerk of the board. 

3 As treasurer, he shall keep a rent-roll and schedule 
of the estates of the University; he shall collect all rents, 
interest and other revenues whatever belonging thereto; 
he shall, with the consent and approbation of the Committee 
of Finance and Accounts, call in and place out money on 
interest, and take securities therefor in the name of “ The 
University of Pennsylvania;” he shall, with such consent and 


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approbation, lease the houses and estates, and cause neces- 
sary repairs therein to be made; he shall, when authorized 
by the board, contract for the sale of any part of the real 
estate, and receive the purchase money therefor, he shall 
pay the stipulated salaries to the provost, vice-provost, pro- 
fessors and other officers of the institution; he shall dis- 
charge all claims against the institution, upon warrants 
signed by the Committee of Finance and Accounts, or when 
directed by a resolution of the board, having care in all cases 
to take and keep proper vouchers therefor; he shall pre- 
pare and submit to the said committee, on the first Tuesday 
of July and January, in every year, a correct statement of 
the receipts and expenditures of the preceding half year, 
and of the funds then remaining in his hands; he shall de- 
posit all money received on account and for the use of the 
University in such bank as may from time to time be desig- 
nated by the s »id committee, to his credit as u Secretary and 
Treasurer of the Trustees of the University of Pennsyluania 
and he shall mingle therewith no other accounts, either re- 
lating to his private concerns, or otherwise; and all checks 
drawn upon the bank, in which such money shall have been 
deposited, shall contain the name or names of the person or 
persons, to whom the money so drawn for is to be paid; he 
shall keep regular books of accounts of all receipts and ex- 
penditures, and the debts and credits of the Corporation, 
which books shall, at all reasonable times, be open to the 
inspection and examination of the aforesaid committee, or of 
any member of the board, and he shall annually lay a state- 
ment of the funds of the institution, first submitting the same 
to the said committee, before the legislature of the common- 
wealth; and generally he shall faithfully perform all duties 
concerning the estates and revenues of the Corporation, 
which may be necessary to the economical and prudent ma- 
nagement thereof, and may be required by the board, or by 
the Committee of Finance and Accounts. 


Of the General Divisions of the University. 

There shall be in this University, 

1 A department of the Arts and Sciences, 

2. A iVledical department, 

3. A Law department. 

4. A department of ^Natural Sciences, 

5. A department of General Literature. 

Of the General Government of the Univer- 
sity. 

The general government of the University shall be exer- 
cised by the Faculty, consisting of the provost, vice-provost 
and professors (with the exceptions hereinafter contained) 
subject to the rules and statutes and the control of the Board 
©f Trustees. 

Of the Government of the University in the 
Department of the Arts and Sciences. 

The students and scholars shall be under the government 
of the provost, vice-provost, and professors in the arts, sub- 
ject to the rules and statutes and the control of the board of 
trustees. 

Of the College, Academy, and Charity 
Schools. 

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The seminary, in relation to the arts and sciences, shall 
consist of three parts, viz, 

1 . The college. 


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2. The academy. 

3. The charity schools. 


Of the College. 

1 . The students of the collegiate department shall be dis- 
tributed into three classes, viz. 

The senior class. 

The junior class. 

The sophomore class. 

2 These classes shall be under the immediate care and 
instruction of three professors (one of whom shall be the 
provost, and another the vice-provost) viz. 

A professor of moral philosophy. 

A professor of natural philosophy and mathematics. 

A professor of languages. 

3. A mathematical master, or teacher of mathematics, shall 
be appointed by this board, with an annual salary, whose 
duty it shall be to instruct the first and second classes of the 
grammar school in such branches of mathematics as shall be 
directed by this board. 

4. No applicant shall be admitted into the sophomore class 
until he shall appear, upon examination, to be duly qualified 
in such branches of mathematics, and also in such Latki and 
Greek authors, as shall be prescribed by this board. 

5. The requisites for entering the sophomore or third class, 
in this University, shall be as follows: 

Every such applicant shall have read Virgil, Sallust, and 
Horace, in the Latin; the New Testament, Lucian’s Dia- 
logues, Xenophon’s Cyrus, and the,Graeca Minora of Dalzel, 
in the Greek language; and learned quantity and scanning 
in each. He shall also have been taught arithmetic of whole 
and broken numbers, and the extraction of roots; English. 


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grammar, the elements of geography, and Greek and Roman 
antiquities. His fitness must appear on examination. He shall 
be also of, at least, fourteen years. Any special exception to 
this last provision, shall be decided by the board, upon appli- 
cation of the professors. 

6. The course of instruction shall be as in the following 
Tables . 


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7. The recitations of the classes shall be according to 
the following Table. 


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There shall be but one recitation on Saturdays. 

8. Half yearly examinations of the students shall be held 
by the professors in the presence of the committee of exa- 
mination and advice, and such other trustees as shall attend. 

9. No student, who shall not, on examination, show him- 
self to be master of the studies of the preceding year, shall 
be suffered to proceed to a higher class, but he may be al - 
lowed to take the lowest place therein, if, at the next suc- 
ceeding examination, he shall give satisfactory proofs that 
he has supplied his deficiency. 

10. The students shall be ranked in their respective classes 
according to their merit. 

11. The punishments to be inflicted shall be exclusively 
directed to a sense of duty and the principles of honour and 
shame, and shall consist of private admonition by a profes-. 
sor — admonition in the presence of the Faculty— admonition 
in the presence of the Faculty and of the class of the offender; 


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public admonition and reproof in the presence of all the 
students of the college — removal to a lower class— suspen* 
tion for a limited time from the college privileges — dismis- 
sion — expulsion. 

12. Negligence or contumacy shall be punished by admo- 
nition, removal to a lower class or dismission: immorality, 
by admonition, suspension or expulsion, according to the na- 
ture and degree of the offence. But no punishment, except 
private admonition, shall be inflicted, unless ordered by a re- 
solution of a major part of the professors; nor shall the pun- 
ishment of dismission or expulsion be inflicted unless it be 
first sanctioned by a vote of the trustees. In case of dismis- 
sion, the offender may be re-admitted by a vote of the trus- 
tees, but the effect of expulsion shall be an utter disqualifica- 
tion of the individual for admission into this institution, or for 
receiving any of its honours. 

13. A student who shall be found incompetent to the pre- 
scribed studies, shall be dismissed, and want of sufficient 
progress to entitle him to proceed to a higher class, after 
having remained two years in a lower one, shall always be 
considered as a proof of such incompetency, or of negligence 
requiring dismission. 

14. The students shall be assembled in the morning of 
every day for the purpose of prayer. 

15. The provost shall receive as a compensation for his 
services, the annual sum of nine hundred thirty-three dollars 
and thirty-three cents, together with one-third of the tuition 
money received from the students, and shall have the right 
of using such part of the university building, as may, from 
time to time, be set apart for him, or one of the houses be- 
longing to the institution in Chesnut street, at the pleasure of 
the Board. 


16. The vice-provost shall receive as a compensation for 
his services, the annual sum of eight hundred and eighty dol- 
lars, together with one-third of the tuition money, and shall 
have the right of using such part of the university building 
as may, from time to time, be set apart for him, or one of 
the houses belonging to the institution in Chesnut street, at 
the pleasure of the Board. 

17. The professor of languages shall receive as a compen- 
sation for his services, the annual sum of eight hundred and 
fifty-three dollars and thirty-three cents, together with one 
third of the tuition money, and shall have the right of using 
one of the houses in Chesnut street belonging to the institu- 
tion, or a part of the university building, at the pleasure of 
the Board. 

18. The semi-annual examinations shall be held on the 
last week ot each term. 

19. There shall be a public exhibition for exercises in 
oratory, under the direction of the Faculty, on the last 
Thursday of the first term of each session. 

20. The stated times for holding the commencements in 
the arts, shall be the last Thursday $n the session. 

21. The fees for tuition during the term, shall be ten dol- 
lars to each professor, payable at the end of the third month . 
Provided , That this section shall continue in force only so 
long as there shall be but three professors in the Faculty. 

22. It shall be the duty of the professors to collect from 
each student, two dollars for fuel, at the time when the fee 
for tuition is payable in the first term, and pay the same over^- 
to the treasurer. 


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Grammar School. 

1 . The grammar school shall be under the immediate care, 
and direction of a master. 

2. There shall be at least four classes in this school, the 
two highest of which shall be under the special care of the 
master: the other classes shall be under the care of the tu- 
tor, or, if there be more than one tutor, the classes shall be 
distributed among them in such manner as the master shall 
direct. 

3. Besides instruction in Latin and Greek, the scholars 
shall be carefully instructed in penmanship and in the com- 
mon rules of arithmetic, and in vulgar and decimal frac^ 
tions, either by the tutors or some one of them, or by a suit- 
able person especially appointed for these purposes. 

4. The books to be read, and the manner in which the 
studies of the classes shall be conducted, are as follows: 

First. In the lowest class shall be learned the Latin acci- 
dence, and the rules for the gender and the increase of 
nouns; the Vocabulary from the beginning of the book 
to the end of the adjectives, the rules being required for 
the gender of each noun and for its increase; the rules 
for the preterites and supines of verbs followed by the 
remaining part of the vocabulary; the fundamental rules 
of syntax, and the rules for the increase of the verbs; 
Sententiae Pueriles, and Cordery, the whole of each 
lesson to be parsed; and this class shall be practised in 
putting some verb through its moods and tenses, show- 
ing the formation of each tense, and giving the rules for 
such formation. 

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Second . In the next higher class, Esop’s Fables; Erasmus 6 7 
Dialogues; Latin versions daily, Selectae e Yeteri; Phoe- 
drus’s Fables; Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and Selectae e 
Profanis; Prosody; the general nature and use of tropes 
and figures; Latin versions and an English translation 
of some passage in a Latin author alternately; Arithme- 
tic. This and the former class shall recite a portion of 
the Latin grammar daily. 

Third. In the next higher class, Caesar’s Commentaries; 
Virgil; Sallust; Terence; Greek grammar; Latin and 
English versions continued; Themes one morning in 
every week; Greek grammar to be recited daily by this 
and the following class; arithmetic continued 

Fourth. In the highest or first class, Greek Testament; 
Horace; Versions and Themes continued; Lucian; Livy; 
Roman and Greek antiquities, vulgar and decimal frac- 
tions. 

If the scholars shall be too numerous to be divided into 
the foregoing number of classes, or if in the opinion of the 
master it shall be expedient to have more than four classes, 
the master may form a greater number of classes, preserv- 
ing, as far as practicable, the order of instruction before 
mentioned. 

The scholars during the whole course shall be exercised 
in declamation in English and in Latin, and every Latin and 
Greek book which is read shall be reviewed. 

5. A half-yearly examination accompanied by exercises in 
oratory, shall be held in the presence of the faculty, of the 
committee of examination and advice, and such others of the 
trustees and friends of the scholars as may attend. 

6. Each scholar shall pay quarterly twelve dollars, with & 

reasonable addition for fuel, quills, and mk. 


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T. The master shall receive as a compensation for his ser- 
vices, all the tuition money paid by his scholars, and shall 
have the use of a school room. 


Of the Charity Schools. 


These schools shall remain as heretofore, until otherwise 
ordered by the board, under the direction of the committee 
appointed for the purpose of superintending them. 


Of General Superintendance, fiyc. 

1 . The grammar and charity schools shall be subject to 
the inspection, superintendance, and control of the profes- 
sors of the collegiate department. But the masters of the 
grammar and charity schools respectively, may appeal to the 
board upon any point in which they differ from the decision 
of the said professors. 

2. The scholars in the grammar school shall be assem- 
bled on the morning of every day for the purpose of prayer. 

3. The number of tutors in the respective schools shall be 
regulated by the professors of the collegiate department, 
subject to the rules and statutes of the board of trustees: 
they shall be nominated by the masters of the respective 
schools, but shall not be appointed until they shall have been 
examined by the provost and professors in the collegiate 
department, in the presence of the committee of examina- 
tion and advice, and approved of by them: they shall receive 
in quarterly payments from the master of the school in which 
they shall have been appointed, such salary as shall be order- 
ed by the said committee, subject to the control of the board. 


And it shall be the duty of the master of each school to re- 
quire from the tutors therein, a diligent and faithful perform- 
ance of their duties, and by a frequent interchange of duties 
with the tutors, to make himself acquainted with the progress 
of his scholars. 

4. The holy-days in the college shall be: at Christmas eight 
days, including Christmas and New Year day; at Easter, 
four days, including Good Friday and Tuesday in Easter 
week; at Whitsuntide, one day; the twenty-second day of 
February; the fourth day of July; the second Tuesday in 
October, six weeks commencing from the last day of July; 
and the afternoon of every Saturday — and there shall be no 
others. 

5. The first term shall hereafter commence on the second 
Monday of September, and end on the Saturday next before 
the first Monday of March : and the second term shall com- 
mence on the first Monday of March, and end on the last 
Saturday of July. 

6. The holy-days in the grammar and charity schools shall 
be the same as in the college, except that the summer vaca- 
tion in the two former shall be but four weeks, commencing 
from the last day of July. 

7 . The hours of attendance for the purpose of recitation 
of the students of the senior and junior classes of the col- 
lege, shall be (from the first of April to the first of October 
in every year) from nine to eleven, A. M. and from three to 
five, P M. and the sophomore class between the same pe- 
riods shall attend from eight to twelve, A. M. and from two 
to five, P. M. During the rest of the year, the senior and 
junior classes shall attend from nine to eleven, A M. and 
from three to half after four, P. M. and the sophomore class 
from nine to twelve, A. M. and from two to half after four. 
P. M. 


8. The scholars in the grammar and charity schools shall 
attend between the first of April and the first of October, 
from eight to twelve, A. M. and from two to five. P. M. 
During the remainder of the year from nine t<5 twelve, A. 
M. and from two to half past four, P. M. 

9. The professors in the collegiate department shall hold 
stated meetings on the day preceding the first Tuesday in 
every month, and as often as the business of the university 
may require, at which the provost, or in his absence the vice 
provost, shall preside; and they shall keep minutes of their 
proceedings, which shall be open to the inspection of the 
committee of examination and advice. 

10. They shall have full power to regulate the government 
and studies of the students and scholars subject to the rules 
and statutes of the board of trustees, and shall make a quar- 
terly report in writing of the state of the different depart- 
ments of the institution, and the number of students and 
scholars therein, to the committee of examination and ad- 
vice . 

11. It shall be the special duty of the provost, or in his 
absence, of the vice provost, to visit and superintend the va- 
rious schools and departments; to see that the rules and 
statutes of the board of trustees are duly carried into effect; 
to report to this board every instance of refusal or neglect 
to comply with such rules and statutes, and to advise and 
suggest such alterations and improvements as he may deem 
best calculated to promote the welfare and usefulness of the 
institution. 

Of the Medical Department of the Univer- 
sity. 

In the medical department, there shall be> 

1. A professorship of anatomy. 

2 . A professorship of surgery. 


3. A professorship of the institutes and the practice of 

physic and of clinical medicine. 

4. A professorship of materia medica. 

5 . A professorship of chemistry. 

6. A professorship of midwifery. 

Of the Government of the University in re- 
lation to the Medical Department. 

1. The medical schools shall be under the immediate go* 
vernment of the medical professors, subject to the rules and 
statutes of the board of trustees. 

2. The medical professors shall hold meetings from time 
to time for the purpose of arranging and conducting the busi- 
ness of this department, and establishing proper rules and 
regulations (subject to the rules and statutes of the board of 
trustees) for the preservation of order and decorum among 
the medical students, and they shall keep regular minutes of 
their proceedings. 

3. All questions (those excepted which relate to the pas- 
sing of a candidate for a medical degree) shall be decided 
by a majority. 

4. The medical professors shall, each in rotation, act as 
dean for one year, and it shall be the duty of the dean to 
arrange and conduct the business of examining the candi- 
dates for medical degrees. 


Of the Law Department. 

The duties, powers, and compensation of the professqr 
shall be regulated by future resolutions of the board. 


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Of the Department of Natural Science. 

This department shall consist of the following professor- 
ships: (reserving to the trustees the power to combine, or 
subdivide the professorships, as may hereafter be found ex- 
pedient: Provided no such alteration take place during a 
course of lectures.) 

1. A professorship of natural philosophy. 

2. A professorship of botany. 

3. A professorship of natural history, including geology 

and zoology. % 

4. A professorship of mineralogy and chemistry, as ap* 

plied to agriculture and the arts. 

5. A professorship of comparative anatomy. 

Of the Government of the Department of 
Natural Science. 

1. The faculty shall have power to make regulations for 
their own government, with the approbation of the trustees, 
and to appoint such officers as they may find necessary; but 
shall have no power to interfere with the course of instruc- 
tion that any of its individual members may think proper to 
pursue. 

2. The professors, individually, may on their own respon- 
sibility, grant to their pupils certificates of their proficiency, 
or other honorary distinctions. 

The right of the professor of chemistry in the medical 
faculty to treat of such parts of the subjects of the new pro- 
fessorships as he may deem necessary, shall not be impaired 
by the establishment of those professorships. 


1st December, 1818. 


The Professorship of General Literature shall be subject to 
such regulations as the board may hereafter establish. 

No person not a member of one of the faculties of this 
institution, shall be permitted to make use of any of the apart- 
ments of the building in Ninth street, for the purpose of deli- 
vering lectures or other public exhibitions therein, except 
the pupils of the university, or associates formed by them 
for their improvement in literature, under the special license 
of the board. 

In future, and until otherwise directed by this board, every 
Student who shall begin to acquire a knowledge of the Greek, 
in the said school, shall commence with a Greek grammar 
in the Latin language, and in no other; and the grammar 
published by Mr James Ross as an improvement on the 
Westminster grammar, shall be used in such case; except 
the scholar, his parent, or guardian shall propose some other, 
in which event such selection shall be limited to a grammar 
in the Latin language, which shall have the same divisions 
of nouns into declensions, which exist in the Westminster 
grammar abovementioned. 


Of Commencements and conferring De- 
grees. 


L There shall be an annual commencement of graduates 
in the arts on the first Thursday of June in every year, un- 
less when otherwise specially ordered by this board. 

2 There shall be an annual commencement of graduates 
in medicine, on the first Monday of May in every year, unless 
when otherwise ordered by this board. 


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3. No degree shall be conferred unless ordered by a man- 
damus, signed by thirteen or more trustees. 

Of Candidates for Degrees in the Arts. 

1. Candidates for the degree of bachelor in the arts shall 
be first examined by the professors in the collegiate depart- 
ment, in the presence of the committee of examination and 
advice, and such other members of the board of trustees as 
may attend. 

2. The provost shall report the names of those who shall 
have been found worthy of receiving such degree to the 
board, who shall, if the report be approved, issue their man- 
damus for conferring such degree accordingly. 

3. The degree of master of arts may be conferred on the 
alumni of the university, who shall have been bachelors in 
the arts of three years standing. 

4. The plan and arrangement of the exercises at com- 
mencement shall conform to the practice of the most ap- 
proved seminaries, and they shall first be submitted to the 
examination and correction of the provost, which correction 
shall be observed by the student under the penalty of being 
refused a degree. 

5. Every graduate in the arts shall pay to the provost, vice- 
provost, and professor of languages, respectively, five dollars, 
as an honorarium, at the time of placing their signatures to 
his diploma. 

Of Candidates for Degrees in Medicine. 

1 No person shall be admitted as a candidate for the de- 
gree of doctor of medicine, until he shall have attained the 

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age of twenty-one years, nor unless he shall have applied 
himself to the study of medicine three years, two of which 
shall have been in this university, nor unless he shall have 
attended the Pennsylvania hospital or the city alms-house 
during one session at least; and also have attended the prac- 
tice, and been the private pupil of some respectable practi- 
tioner. 

2. No person shall be admitted as a candidate for said de- 
gree unless he shall have regularly attended the lectures of 
the following professors, viz. 

1 . ) The professor of anatomy. 

2. The professor of surgery. 

3. The professor of the institutes and the practice of 

physic and of clinical medicine. 

4. The professor of materia medica. 

5 The professor of chemistry. 

6. The professor of midwifery. 

3. Each person intending to offer himself as a candidate 
for the degree of doctor of medicine, shall, on or before the 
10th of March of the year in which he offers himself as a 
candidate, signify such intention in writing, to the dean, and 
shall one week at least before the time appointed for his ex- 
amination, deliver to the dean a thesis on some medical sub- 
ject, which subject shall have been approved of by the pro- 
fessors. The candidate shall then be examined privately by 
the professors upon the various branches of medicine and 
upon his thesis, in the presence of such of the trustees as may 
choose to attend, notice of the time of examination having 
been previously given to them. If he be found qualified for 
the degree he shall be so reported by the dean to the provost 
Ivho shall communicate such report to the trustees, in order 
that, if approved of by them, their mandamus may be issued 
for conferring the degree, at such time as they may judge 
expedient. 


4. The thesis may be published, if the candidate desire it, 
the permission of the professor by whom he was examined 
thereon having been first obtained, but no alteration therein 
shall be made after such permission shall have been given ; 
and a copy of the thesis shall be deposited in every case by 
the candidate composing it in the university library, before 
the degree shall be conferred. 

5. Each graduate in medicine shall pay to the provost 
three dollars; and to the vice-provost two dollars, as an 
honorarium, at the time of placing their signatures to his 
diploma. 

Of Honorary Degrees in Divinity, Law, 
Arts, and Medicine. 

1 . Honorary degrees may be conferred either at the in- 
stance of the provost and faculty, or in pursuance of a re- 
solution of the board of trustees; but no such degree shall 
be conferred, unless the mandamus ordering it be signed 
by two-thirds of the whole number of trustees, nor unless 
the candidate shall have been nominated at the board three 
months previously to taking the question on conferring the 
degree. 


2. The question on conferring of honorary degrees shall 
always be decided by ballot. 


Of the Buildings. 

1. Damage done to the buildings, fixtures, or furniture of 
the institution, shall be repaired at the expense of the indi- 
vidual doing it. 


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2. The class and school rooms in the university build- 
ings, shall be used for the purposes to which they are 
applied, and no other. The old college hall shall not be 
used by any preacher, reader, lecturer, or teacher, unless 
the previous permission of the board shall have been ob- 
tained. 


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TRUSTEES 


OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 


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THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE, ez officio , 
President of the Board, 

Right Rev. WILLIAM WHITE, D D. 

Chief Justice WILLIAM TILGHMAN, 

EDWARD BURD,-^£- 
WILLIAM RAWLE, 

BENJAMIN R. MORGAN, 

• JOSEPH BAb fc; — 


MOSES LEVY, 

JOSEPH B. M‘KEAN,!^ 
JAMES GIBSON, 

JOHN H. BRIN TON, 
HORACE BINNEY, 
WILLIAM MEREDITH, 
BENJAMIN CHEW, 

Rev. JAMES P. WILSON 
ROBERT WALN, 

JOHN SERGEANT, . 
GEORGE FOX, 

THOMAS CADWALADER, 
NICHOLAS BIDDLE, 
ZACCHEUS COLLINS 
PETER S DU PONCE 
CHARLES CHAUNCEY, 


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PROFESSORS. 


ARTS. 

FREDERICK BEASLEY, D. D. Professor of Moral Phi- 
losophy, and Provost of the University. 

ROBERT M. PATTERSON, M D. Professor of Natural 
Philosophy and Mathematics, and Vice- Provost. 

JAMES G. THOMPSON, A. M. Professor of Languages. 

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MEDICINE. 

PHILIP SYNG PHYSIC, M. D. Professor of Anatomy. 

WILLIAM GIBSON, M. D. Professor of Surgery. 

NATHANIEL CHAPMAN, M D. Professor of the Insti- 
tutes and Practice of Physic, and of Clinical Medicine. 

JOHN REDMAN COXE, M. D. Professor of Materia 
Medica, and Pharmacy. 

ROBERT HARE, M. D. Professor of Chemistry. 

THOMAS C. JAMES, M. D. Professor of Midwifery, 

NATURAL SCIENCE. 

WILLIAM P. C. BARTON, M. D, Professor of Botany. 

(Vacant) — Professor of Natural History, including Geology. 

ROBERT M. PATTERSON, M. D. Professor of Natural 
Philosophy. 

THOMAS COOPER, M D. Professor of Mineralogy and 
Chemistry, as applied to Agriculture and the Arts. 

THOMAS T. HEWSON, M. D. Professor of Compara*: 
tive Anatomy. 

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LAW. 

CHARLES W. HARE, A. M. 

GENERAL LITERATURE. 

ROBERT WALSH, Jr. A. M. Professor of General Lite- 
rature. 


GRAMMAR SCHOOL. 
JAMES WILTBANK, A. M. Master. 

CHARITY SCHOOLS. 

JOHN M‘KINLY, Master. 

JANE KNOWLES, Mistress. 


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